ZAD Alcohol Detoxification Treatment– Sec.23

Authors Note: - Zero Alcohol Drink – Alcohol Detoxification Clinical Therapy (ZAD-ADCT) is the most important Document so far in my ZAD venture. It was first published in 2005. In this blog publication, I divide it into its several small “subtitle” sections and post it one by one so to make it more appropriate to the blog reading.

This is its Twenty third section.

ZAD-ADCT Cognitive Motivational Therapy (CMT) (e)

In general, if we question the alcohol dependent people if they have ever before “thought” of trying these lower-alcoholic beverages to reduce their overall alcohol consumption? Many may answer “yes”! So the next question is how many of them have really put it into practice to get rid of their alcohol dependence? Did they have the convenient LAB arrangements and the step-by-step ZAD reduction strategy in place? Did they have any idea how much lower the alcohol content they mean by their lower alcohol drink? Anyway, what was the final out come of such LAB drinking? Did they end up drinking more and more of it so the final tally of their alcohol consumption remained the same or even went up more? Or they have never really attempted it so far because of the establishments propaganda that implies that the ‘alcohol dependent people will anyway consume excessive amount even if they adopt to such a LAB drinking so it is not worth trying! After all what were their conclusions? Probably almost all of them will agree that they have never thought or attempted such a LAB drinking method to control, reduce or cut down their alcohol consumption before in their life!

Now lets us hypothetically investigate, what would happen when the alcohol dependent people opt to drinking the lower alcoholic beverages in order to cut-down their overall alcohol consumption. Suppose an alcohol dependent in a day average, used to drinking around 36 ounces (roughly 1.0 liter) of 10% alcohol content by volume (this also accounts distilled spirit titration) strong beverage which amounts roughly a total of 6 standard alcohol drinks mostly in the evening time, which is considered as excessive or binge drinking! So the person decides to cut-down his/her overall alcohol consumption at least to the half if possible by opting for lower alcoholic beverage say around 5%! What happens next according to the establishment’s argument is that; the person would end up consuming 72 ounces (roughly 2.0 liters) of that appetizing alcoholic beverage, which also amount to six standard alcohol drinks! Therefore they draw the conclusion that this whole idea of taking to the lowered alcohol drinking in order to reduce once overall alcohol consumption will ridiculously end up in a total failure! So their final assertion will be; “total abstinence” alone is the only recovery option for the alcohol dependent (alcoholic) people! Now wait a minute! The original idea is attempting or trying to cut down the alcohol consumption from the 6 drinks to around 3 drinks in a day by consuming the appetizing LAB, which is the original decision that is agreed upon! Now if the person able to consumes 72 ounces of the alcoholic beverage, then why shouldn’t it’s alcohol content once again reduced to its half (2.5% by volume) in their attempt or try to cut down or reduce their overall alcohol consumption from that standard six to a standard three! Do they think the same thing will repeat once again so the dependent people now will drink double that quantity 144 (around 4 liters) or even 200 ounces (around 6 liters) of this 2.5% LAB beverage day after days, months and years together for life long? Then why not reduce the alcohol content further to 1.2%! After all what really prevents them in reducing the alcohol content from the standard 5% to its half say the safe 2.5% or the safest 1.2%? At this alcohol percentage levels, quite enough of the intoxicating effect of the alcohol still remains and people still prefer for such LAB drinks! The “Innovation in Europe”: Research and Result document states: ‘As consumers health consciousness has increased in recent years, the consumption of beverages with low levels of alcohol also increase …Drinks are described as “low alcohol” if they contain less than 0.5% alcohol and alcohol free if they have less than 0.05% [38]. Another document from: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Toronto comments: “Low-alcohol beverages have become more popular in North America as people become more responsible about their health and the consequences of drinking and driving” [44]. So far to our search for the research finding in the area of Low-alcohol drinks overwhelmingly provides the evidence that the LAB (around 2.5% alcohol content or less) drinking in general enables people to reduce their overall alcohol consumption [48, 49, 50, 51] I have also put together many such empirical evidence in “The ZAD Empirical Evidence Surveillance” section of my previous paper[2]. Now if any one argues that it would be fundamentally different with the alcohol dependent people then we will be soon going to find it out at the end of this ZAD-ADCT therapy!

(See its following part in the next post.)

Valerian Texeira.
http://www.geocities.com/scientific_misconduct
http://www.geocities.com/alcoholics_curewell
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com
http://alcoholicscurewell.blogspot.com